{"id":102839,"date":"2015-10-26T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/102839\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-topics-3\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T08:22:44","slug":"have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-topics-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/10\/26\/have-your-say-on-this-weeks-hot-topics-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Have your say on this week\u2019s hot topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have your say on this week\u2019s hot topics<\/p>\n<p>The two hot topics of conversation on the Germiston City News Facebook page for the week, October 17 to 23 were:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>1. Cosas students vandalise school and assault teacher: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/981174028601969\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1kyRmXL<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/10\/IMG_3166-Custom_61146.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102840\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/10\/IMG_3166-Custom_61146-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3166-Custom_61146\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/10\/IMG_3166-Custom_61146-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/10\/IMG_3166-Custom_61146-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/10\/IMG_3166-Custom_61146.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Students and staff of Germiston High School were terrified when approximately 300 members of the Germiston branch of Cosas (Congress of South African Students) descended on the school, last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>You said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Angel Marks, \u201cWhy on earth must students stop paying school fees? People want everything for free, children must learn that paying school fees is the right thing to do.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Marina le Roux, \u201cSuch a sad day for my old school. These youths should be in school themselves, not creating havoc. This is what happens when basic discipline is absent. Thoughts are with the staff and students who had to endure this ordeal.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Marie Jones, \u201cThey want an education but carry on like barbarians?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Ola Jimoh, \u201cNo. No. No. God help us.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. Some Germiston residents will be without water this Saturday: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/germistoncitynews\/posts\/982923835093655\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1GYyLt5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/10\/water-3_86283.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102841\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/10\/water-3_86283-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"water-3_86283\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/10\/water-3_86283-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/10\/water-3_86283-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/10\/water-3_86283.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The metro carried out essential maintenance work at the Primrose Reservoir. In order to make way for the work, a planned water supply interruption affected Germiston and its surrounding areas on Saturday, from 8am until 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>You said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dorothy Jeacocks, \u201cWhat\u2019s new?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Elaine Basson, \u201cThe outage had already started before the work begun.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='74a2c60721bce02aca87ec1f8794b981'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":102840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-102839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}